Yeah, did you know the U.S. is the only first world country on the planet to not have government mandated paid vacation time for all workers? China gets 10, Sri Lanka gets 28. Yeah, Sri Lanka. Go figure. U.S.? 0.

I've been reading a lot about Mobile Frame Zero and watching a few Giant Transforming Robot shows (as well as "The Legend of Korra" which has some rudimentary mechas in it). I don't have a lot of Legos, but I do have Creationary and I decided to see if I could build some with the limited set that comes with that game. The below was my first attempt. It's interesting trying to get articulation without a lot of hinges and specialty bricks (droid bodies, etc).

After that, I had another go at it, and came up with the second one below. I think it's a little better, and it uses less bricks.

After that, I was reading about LDraw and the capabilities of open source Lego CAD programs. I used to use CAD in high school, so I figured it couldn't be hard to use. It's not. In fact, it's so much easier to use than CAD, that just about anyone who has computer literacy can use it.

To be clear, I built the first on Sunday, the second yesterday, and downloaded and used LDraw to reproduce the second model last night. That's how easy it is. But I think it's frickin cool, and I felt like sharing.

The first image is a POV-Ray render of the model made in LDraw. The second is the model rendered in the LPub program which can replicate step-by-step directions that come with Lego sets.

I bought a $9 model from the Lego Atlantis line and after building the model, I turned it into a mobile frame as well. I'll post pics of it and another one I built from just Creationary later today. The Atlantis-based frame is way better articulated, but still nowhere near as good as some of these guys creations.

Here are the two new frames. The first is just Creationary pieces. It is a heavy armor frame with a lot of armament but very little speed. I call it "The Bear."

The second is built from pieces out of the Atlantis Seabed Strider box (which could be a frame all by itself, really), with a couple pieces from Creationary. I call this one "MOSKITO (MObile SKirmisher, Integrated Tactics Officer)."

Yeah, even playing it via Maptool was fun. As soon as Action Castle wraps up, I might try my hand at MoF0 as a PBP, but I'll have to do some rules tweaking since action order by participants is so important to gameplay.